Your Tax dollars at work

[ProPokerPlayer]

73 18 wheelers paid $2600 each to bring 3 million pounds of ice from Maryland to Louisiana. After arriving in Carville Louisiana 2 weeks ago they were told to wait there for further instructions and pd $800 a day to wait.
This morning at 2am they were told their services were no longer needed, to dump the ice where they sat and be on there way...3 million lbs of ice melted in the parking lots and the drivers made over $10,000 each to do nothing....:lol:

 

[Uno]

3 million lbs of ice melted

meanwhile obama took this 6 words and made an ad blaming bush for global warming.

 

[KennyB]

I don't know the exact circumstances that happened here but if the federal government doesn't make ice and emergency provisions to people after a disaster everyone blasts them. I guess they ended up not needing the ice but the government is damned if they do and damned if they don't. After Wilma hit in South Florida I was the beneficiary of free government ice and it was quite helpful. Probably the only government handout I have ever accepted. After a hurricane you can't buy ice no matter how much money you have so it sure can be important.

 

[-Slim-]

were their tires well inflated is the real question?

 

[ProPokerPlayer]

You are exactly right Kenny and if that ice had been here after the hurricane it would have been gone in 1 day....on the 4th day after the hurricane there was no ice or food for miles...FEMA insisted the trucks were "on there way". Even to the point of telling ppl when and where they could meet them only to have thousands lined up and no trucks ever show...

What id like to know is how in the hell was Maryland the closet, best, cheapest or whatever to get ice from?

Ill tell you what happened and bet my bottom dollar im right.
Someone at FEMA has connections with this ICE co. They pd probably above retail for this ice. Then paid some consultant or somebody thousands to organize this convoy that got here way to late to help anybody...It cost Fema just from what we know about the trucks, drivers and the price of ice approx 1 million dollars to get this ice here...What we dont know is how much was split by the ice company and the guy who hired them and the trucking company and the guy who hired them.
Conservativly estimting id say those 3 million lbs of ice cost the American taxpayer close to 2 million dollars...and it was at least a week late and not 1 cube was ever used..........

Succession is our only hope !!!!!!

 

[nhoj]

People here in Houston still need ice due to still about 700,000 without power. What a waste and you bet someone inside profited I guessing this could be FEMAS last rodeo.